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Although the Android framework is designed purely for Java-based applications, the Android Native Development Kit (NDK) is also provided by Google as an official companion toolset for the Android SDK to enable developers to implement and embed performance-critical portions of their applications using native machine code–generating programming languages, such as C, C++, and assembly.
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© 2014 Godfrey Nolan, Onur Cinar, and David Truxall
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Nolan, G., Cinar, O., Truxall, D. (2014). Native Development. In: Android Best Practices. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-5858-2_5
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